Month: November 2015

These are the esxi host log files one needs to be quite familiar with. These logs should be checked depending on the issue you facing, and trying to troubleshoot. /var/log/auth.log: ESXi Shell authentication success and failure. /var/log/lacp.log: Link Aggregation Control Protocol logs. /var/log/hostd.log: Host management service logs, including virtual machine and host Task and Events,…

I have not seen any special feature improvements in 5.5 over 5.1 that would have benefited our environment, and as with any other major new releases was patiently waiting for VMware to come out with Update 1 for vSphere 6. Originally I had the SSO, VMware Update Manager, and vCenter each running on its own server. Databases…